Got any concrete plant pics? The joys of salty brownlining

Wadin' Boot

Wadin' Boot

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Concrete plant action is heating up!

Launched with my son at midday, the perfect fishing time for brownline action, as good as any time to get some solid North winds. Plus, noon launch guarantees harsh sun angles for the kind of Concrete Plant images that would no doubt "Pop."

Before we launched though, a surprise, a nice Lady from NOAA was conducting a survey on kayak/fishing access in Seattle and fishing opportunities. Many of the questions revolved around toxic waste!

Noah Survey lady: Would we fish here or kayak here more if there was no toxic waste?
Boot: Absolutely! But even if there was toxic waste we would still kayak here, and fish here, have you seen the concrete plants around here? Stunning... plus.... Ospreys!
Noah Survey lady: Ok.... next question...

Anyway here's the photo essay!
Vegemite hat, meet vegemite-themed crane
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Hot day meant a shady spot for this missus, looks sorta pristine, no? I mean you could mistake this for the Cedar river...
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Here's the perch context...A stunning view of a bunch of moored up Vegemite cranes, you don't see those on the Cedar!
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First Concrete plant
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First plant with frameable "wish you were here" preset photo manipulation, PM me if you want high res on this baby! Also, this probably should be Matt B's next canoe in front of Rainier backdrop photo...
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Second plant with tugboats that got monster truck style elevated cabins!
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Solo caspian tern @Matt B !
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Plant number 3
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Osprey nest #1
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Figured the title for this one should be really concrete: "two ospreys and concrete plant #3"
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Osprey and crow on nesting platform at concrete plant #3
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If you like ospreys and concrete plants, here's a different view of the crow and the osprey with the "wish you were here" preset postcard treatment!
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Not every shot is a winner. Then again you ever notice in say photojournalism there can be a shitty blurred photo of the main character and it's passed off as legit? Well this is an example of that technique, only this was not intentional photojournalism quality, I just lucked out with nailing that technique!
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As for brownlining? Plenty of fish, flies were way outperforming hoochie
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Another Osprey nest up on the lightstack
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Super fun day!
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Interesting contrasts. Nice to see birds surviving alongside industry.
In the fourth photo, it looks like the rats have a 50/50 chance of getting onboard. I wonder why there's two rat guards on one line, but none on the second line. Maybe the crew is still setting things up.
 
Otter said:
Interesting contrasts. Nice to see birds surviving alongside industry.
In the fourth photo, it looks like the rats have a 50/50 chance of getting onboard. I wonder why there's two rat guards on one line, but none on the second line. Maybe the crew is still setting things up.
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5 osprey easily seen from plant #3. I think they have made progress on cleanup but plenty of work to go. under the Spokane St bridges there's lots of bull kelp, also nice to see that, and lots of bait balls moving through that channel too. On the way back to the launch a guy in a Port of Seattle pickup had sprinklers running on the vegetation there, efforts are underway....And the Noaa lady is right, accessing these river parks is one way to make them safer, cleaner, better
 
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That's truly amazing, with the kelp and bait balls in that environment. I'm comparing that to here along the central east coast of Vancouver Island, where the kelp and bait balls went MIA many years ago, and have never returned. It doesn't help that the massive Fraser River discharges much of B.C.'s wastes into Georgia Strait, plus growing development along the Island's east coast.
 
Geez Boot, they even built a lighted Osprey carousel there?
 
Fun, wind free/still time on the Duwamish, a few pods moving through, hooked one nice fish, mostly just checking stuff out...
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Foss Tugs made a sharp correction here
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Ash Grove
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I was out on a bike ride today and stopped at the Duwamish low bridge to take in the carnage and mayhem. Do people not realize that you can bonk a fish just by smacking them in the head? There's no need to slam the entire salmon onto the concrete. Repeatedly.

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Many believe slamming your humpies into the concrete multiple times with a MMA smack down move really helps tenderize the meat.
SF
 
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Many believe slamming your humpies into the concrete multiple times with a MMA smack down move really helps tenderize the meat.
SF
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The concrete is locally sourced, artisanal. It's practically farmer's market grade A....The Duwamish Pink hones in from thousands of miles away on their return journey for the various scents of native Duwamish Concretes. It's only fitting to send some home the same way they came, from ashes to Ash Grove, dust to dust...

Similarly, the Pink run in the Skagit heads to, you guessed it, Concrete.

"this pink has notes of lime, sand , ash..."
 
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Wadin' Boot said:
The concrete is locally sourced, artisanal. It's practically farmer's market grade A....
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Besides sand, concrete is one of the best surfaces to get perfectly cooked by the sun humpy, so I totally understand the artisanal aspect of it.
SF
 
Having the bag share the empty beer cans with the humpy makes it next level. A nice long sit in the sun helps bring out the bag flavor, and also allows for some nice bacteria growth, important when doing the Humpy colon cleanse.
 
Those ought to be delicious with a nice fermented blue green algae sauce and a dirty mason jar of home-distilled Blind Drunk 'Shine . . .
 
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